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How to save state parks from closure
May 11, 2012 By Joseph Perkins A pair of Northern California lawmakers unveiled a proposal this week to avert the scheduled July 1 closure of 70 state’s 278 parks, casualties of last year’s budget-cutting by the Legislature. “The notion of closing 70 parks is ill-conceived,” said st...
Brown purges respected doctor
May 11, 2012 By John Seiler California increasingly resembles the Soviet Union in the 1930s but with better weather. The economy is socialist; the leader is megalomaniac; and dissidents are purged. The latest victim is Dr. La Donna Porter, M.D. Her "crime": advocating policies different fr...
Disabilities Act lawsuit abuse divides activists
May 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes Lawsuit abuse is a growing problem in California, but none is more prevalent than disability access lawsuits and the financial damage they cause to California businesses. Several state lawmakers are trying to address the lawsuit abuse with new legisla...
Jerry Brown pulls a Nixon
May 10, 2012 By Chriss Street "Only Nixon could go to China" is a political metaphor referring to the ability of a politician with an unassailable reputation among his supporters for staunchly representing and defending their values, to take actions that would draw vicious criticism and fierce...
Great news: fewer kids going to California universities
May 10, 2012 By John Seiler Youngsters finally are figuring out that going $100,000 in debt to get a degree in poststructural-prepostmodern-quasistructuralist-semiFoucaulist-political-correctness with no chance of a job isn't exactly the best way to start out in life. A new study released t...
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